I'm, using Nextcloud + KeePassXC (DX on android). Nextcloud part can, obviously, be replaced by another mechanism.
Not sure how much of your ground it would cover, but I've used easyeffects in the past to apply noise cancellation. Worked very well. It's also on pipewire level so you don't have to mess with alsa directly.
I do recall it having many more plugins as well as eq, I just didn't have a reason to use it.
If The Wire and The Shield have taught me anything - it's that all the stats are cooked.
I've been running mine for just over 5 years now - initial setup was ass, but it's very much hands off now - email simply doesn't change anymore.
If you have a domain to test - I can host it for you. If you then decide that it works well enough for you - I'll show you how to set it up on your own server.
Wireguard works best for private traffic, but you can't host a public site with that.
Of course you can! Nginx and wireguard on a VPS and actual services wherever you want.
If you can dedicate some time to constant keep up - pick a rolling distro. Doing major version upgrades has never not had problems for me. Every major distro has one.
My choice is Gentoo, but I'm weird like that. Having said that - my email server has been running happily on Arch for just over 5 years now.
The lemmy instance I host is on Debian testing - Gentoo was not available on DO - no issues so far.
Even when it's mostly containers - why waste time every n years doing the big upgrade? Small change is always safer.
Don't really have anything to add, but wanted to boost the activity on this post.
A subscription for surge protection is fucking stupid - that's insurance renamed; but you, OP, clearly do not understand how electricity works.
@[email protected] has already answered, but in general - you can see [de]federated instances at an <instance url>/instances. In my case that would be lemmy.cafe/instances
If not for an occasional comment like yours - I would never remember I've defederated them. Thanks!
Never had a chance to give syncthing a shot, but nextcloud works very well. On top of that, if you ever want to ditch apple/google - it will also happily sync your contacts, calendar, etc, as well as more niche stuff like bike rides. It can become chonky, but that really depends on how much stuff you're asking it to do.
He also links a Mastodon thread where he had documented the first few days with pictures.
I genuinely cannot fathom the talent and drive combo some people possess.
He becomes the first former - or serving - president to be convicted of a crime, as he bids to return to the White House.
Truly one of the grander events in politics. US might start slowly but surely rebuilding its image on the international stand if it can keep this up.
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Lemmy Cafe Financial Report October 2023 - February 2024
It's been a while since I've last done one of those. Life happened, but things are settling down slowly. I'll combine all five months since September into a single post, but will keep them separated visually.
Income is applied on date of arrival. Stripe (LiberaPay uses it as processor) pays out in advance and as such income shows up as 0, even though LiberaPay banner shows a non-zero value.
Any financial help is greatly appreciated! To donate click the banner here or in the sidebar:
[!](https://liberapay.com/Illecors/donate)
February 2024
Contributions
- LiberaPay: £0
Expenses
- Servers: £38.94
Month balance
- -£38.94
Previous balance
- -£216.05
Balance to date
- -£254.99
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January 2024
Contributions
- LiberaPay: £0
Expenses
- Servers: £38.66
Month balance
- -£38.66
Previous balance
- -£177.39
Balance to date
- -£216.05
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December 2023
Contributions
- LiberaPay: £0
Expenses
- Servers: £38.59
- Backblaze B2: £0.64
Month balance
- -£39.23
Previous balance
- -£138.16
Balance to date
- -£177.39
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November 2023
Contributions
- LiberaPay: £0
Expenses
- Servers: £38.74
Month balance
- -£38.74
Previous balance
- -£99.42
Balance to date
- -£138.16
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October 2023
Contributions
- LiberaPay: £0
Expenses
- Servers: £37.32
Month balance
- -£37.32
Previous balance
- -£62.1
Balance to date
- -£99.42
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Finance History
| | September 2023 | August 2023 | July 2023 | June 2023 | |---------------|---------|---------|---------|---------| | Contributions | £11.41 | £15.26 | £0 | £0 | | Expenses | £28.85 | £24.75 | £19.18 | £15.99 | | Difference | -£17.44 | -£9.49 | -£19.18 | -£15.99 | | Balance | -£62.1 | -£44.66 | -£35.17 | -£15.99 |
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Previous reports
___ September 2023 ___ August 2023 ___ July 2023 ___ June 2023
People using 'less' when they should be using 'fewer'
EDIT: you guys have dug up some truly horrible pisstakes :D Thank you for those.
To the serious folk - relax a little. This is Mildly Infuriating, not I'm dying if this doesn't stop. As a non-native speaker I was taught a certain way to use the language. The rules were not written down by me, nor the teachers - it was done by the native folk. Peace!
Andrej Karpathy, an artificial intelligence researcher and one of the founding members of OpenAI, said in a post on social media platform X that he departed the Microsoft-backed company on Monday.
Maybe those board and ceo shenanigans did leave a bad taste internally, afterall.
But should you?
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/11608344
> Credit: https://mas.to/@markarayner
Lemmy Cafe has had the database upgraded to PostgreSQL 16
The upgrade has gone through smoothly and everything seems to be running smoothly.
The performance looks to be better on the backend, time will tell if the memory leak issue is actually solved. So far, though - so good!
[Maintenance] 2 February 10AM UTC
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Lemmy Cafe will be having its database upgraded.
Reasons
- Pict-rs is expecting PostgreSQL 16. It's running fine now, but it might not be at some future point.
- PostgreSQL 15 has a bug that requires
jitto be turned off - otherwise DB keeps consuming all the memory available on the system and then some. In the end it gets culled by the kernel. This has performance as well as reliability issues. While turningjitoff has remedied the constant failure, it has also made the database a bit slower. I prefer squeezing out as much performance as possible :)
Plan
- Point
nginxto the maintenance page - Shut down PostgreSQL 15
- Run the upgrade tool
- Start up PostgreSQL 16
- Point
nginxto lemmy
Expected downtime
About an hour, if things go well. More if not so.
Will try to keep the maintenance page updated.
Here's the timezone converter
Today Blender turns 30 years old! Here is a short message form the team.
Amazing milestone!
Also testing federation
[SOLVED] Lemmy "server error" when pict-rs is not running
There are a few reasons why pict-rs might not be running, upgrades being one of them. At the moment the whole of lemmy UI will crash and burn if it cannot load a site icon. Yes, that little thing. Here's the github issue.
To work around this I have set the icon and banner (might as well since we're working on this) to be loaded from a local file rather than nginx.
Here's a snippet of nginx config from the server block:
``` location /static-img/ { alias /srv/lemmy/lemmy.cafe/static-img/;
# Rate limit limit_req zone=lemmy.cafe_ratelimit burst=30 nodelay;
# Asset cache defined in /etc/nginx/conf.d/static-asset-cache.conf proxy_cache lemmy_cache; } ``` I have also included the rate limitting and cache config, but it is not, strictly speaking, necessary.
The somewhat important bit here is the location - I've tried using static, but that is already used by lemmy itself, and as such breaks the UI. Hence the static-img.
I have downloaded the icon and banner from the URLs saved in the database (assuming your instance id in site is, in fact, 1):
SELECT id, icon, banner FROM site WHERE id = 1; id | icon | banner ----+----------------------------------------------+------------------------------------------------ 1 | https://lemmy.cafe/pictrs/image/43256175-2cc1-4598-a4b8-2575430ab253.webp | https://lemmy.cafe/pictrs/image/c982358f-6a51-4eb6-bf0e-7a07a756e600.webp (1 row)
I have then saved those files in /srv/lemmy/lemmy.cafe/static-img/ as site-icon.webp and site-banner.webp.
Changed the ownership to that of nginx (www-data in debian universe, http and httpd in others.
I have then updated the site table to point to the new location for icon and banner:
UPDATE site SET icon = 'https://lemmy.cafe/static-img/site-icon.webp' WHERE id = 1; UPDATE site SET banner = 'https://lemmy.cafe/static-img/site-banner.webp' WHERE id = 1;
Confirm it got applied:
SELECT id, icon, banner FROM site WHERE id = 1; id | icon | banner ----+----------------------------------------------+------------------------------------------------ 1 | https://lemmy.cafe/static-img/site-icon.webp | https://lemmy.cafe/static-img/site-banner.webp (1 row)
That's it! You can now reload your nginx server (nginx -s reload) to apply the new path!
Lemmy server setup on lemmy.cafe
docker compose
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I'm using a v2 - notice the lack of a dash between docker and compose.
I've recently learnt of the default filenames docker compose is trying to
source upon invocation and decided to give it a try. The files are:
- compose.yml
- compose.override.yml
I have split the default docker-compose.yml that lemmy comes with into 2
parts - compose.yml holds pict-rs, postfix and, in my case,
gatus. compose.override.yml is responsible for lemmy services only. This is
what the files contain:
compose.yml
``` x-logging: &default-logging driver: "json-file" options: max-size: "20m" max-file: "4"
services: pictrs: image: asonix/pictrs:0.5.0 user: 991:991 ports: - "127.0.0.1:28394:8080" volumes: - ./volumes/pictrs:/mnt restart: always logging: *default-logging entrypoint: /sbin/tini -- /usr/local/bin/pict-rs run environment: - PICTRS__OLD_REPO__PATH=/mnt/sled-repo - PICTRS__REPO__TYPE=postgres - PICTRS__REPO__URL=postgres://pictrs:<redacted>@psql:5432/pictrs - RUST_LOG=warn - PICTRS__MEDIA__MAX_FILE_SIZE=1 - PICTRS__MEDIA__IMAGE__FORMAT=webp deploy: resources: limits: memory: 512m postfix: image: mwader/postfix-relay environment: - POSTFIX_myhostname=lemmy.cafe volumes: - ./volumes/postfix:/etc/postfix restart: "always" logging: *default-logging
gatus: image: twinproduction/gatus ports: - "8080:8080" volumes: - ./volumes/gatus:/config restart: always logging: *default-logging deploy: resources: limits: memory: 128M ```
___
compose.override.yml is actually a hardlink to the currently active
deployment. I have two separate files - compose-green.yml and
compose-blue.yml. This allows me to prepare and deploy an upgrade to lemmy
while the old version is still running.
compose-green.yml
``` services: lemmy-green: image: dessalines/lemmy:0.19.2 hostname: lemmy-green ports: - "127.0.1.1:14422:8536" restart: always logging: *default-logging environment: - RUST_LOG="warn" volumes: - ./lemmy.hjson:/config/config.hjson # depends_on: # - pictrs deploy: resources: limits: # cpus: "0.1" memory: 128m entrypoint: lemmy_server --disable-activity-sending --disable-scheduled-tasks
lemmy-federation-green: image: dessalines/lemmy:0.19.2 hostname: lemmy-federation-green ports: - "127.0.1.1:14423:8536" restart: always logging: *default-logging environment: - RUST_LOG="warn,activitypub_federation=info" volumes: - ./lemmy-federation.hjson:/config/config.hjson # depends_on: # - pictrs deploy: resources: limits: cpus: "0.2" memory: 512m entrypoint: lemmy_server --disable-http-server --disable-scheduled-tasks
lemmy-tasks-green: image: dessalines/lemmy:0.19.2 hostname: lemmy-tasks ports: - "127.0.1.1:14424:8536" restart: always logging: *default-logging environment: - RUST_LOG="info" volumes: - ./lemmy-tasks.hjson:/config/config.hjson # depends_on: # - pictrs deploy: resources: limits: cpus: "0.1" memory: 128m entrypoint: lemmy_server --disable-http-server --disable-activity-sending
#############################################################################
lemmy-ui-green: image: dessalines/lemmy-ui:0.19.2 ports: - "127.0.1.1:17862:1234" restart: always logging: *default-logging environment: - LEMMY_UI_LEMMY_INTERNAL_HOST=lemmy-green:8536 - LEMMY_UI_LEMMY_EXTERNAL_HOST=lemmy.cafe - LEMMY_UI_HTTPS=true volumes: - ./volumes/lemmy-ui/extra_themes:/app/extra_themes depends_on: - lemmy-green deploy: resources: limits: memory: 256m ```
compose-blue.yml
``` services: lemmy-blue: image: dessalines/lemmy:0.19.2-rc.5 hostname: lemmy-blue ports: - "127.0.2.1:14422:8536" restart: always logging: *default-logging environment: - RUST_LOG="warn" volumes: - ./lemmy.hjson:/config/config.hjson # depends_on: # - pictrs deploy: resources: limits: # cpus: "0.1" memory: 128m entrypoint: lemmy_server --disable-activity-sending --disable-scheduled-tasks
lemmy-federation-blue: image: dessalines/lemmy:0.19.2-rc.5 hostname: lemmy-federation-blue ports: - "127.0.2.1:14423:8536" restart: always logging: *default-logging environment: - RUST_LOG="warn,activitypub_federation=info" volumes: - ./lemmy-federation.hjson:/config/config.hjson # depends_on: # - pictrs deploy: resources: limits: cpus: "0.2" memory: 512m entrypoint: lemmy_server --disable-http-server --disable-scheduled-tasks
lemmy-tasks-blue: image: dessalines/lemmy:0.19.2-rc.5 hostname: lemmy-tasks-blue ports: - "127.0.2.1:14424:8536" restart: always logging: *default-logging environment: - RUST_LOG="info" volumes: - ./lemmy-tasks.hjson:/config/config.hjson # depends_on: # - pictrs deploy: resources: limits: cpus: "0.1" memory: 128m entrypoint: lemmy_server --disable-http-server --disable-activity-sending
#############################################################################
lemmy-ui-blue: image: dessalines/lemmy-ui:0.19.2-rc.5 ports: - "127.0.2.1:17862:1234" restart: always logging: *default-logging environment: - LEMMY_UI_LEMMY_INTERNAL_HOST=lemmy-blue:8536 - LEMMY_UI_LEMMY_EXTERNAL_HOST=lemmy.cafe - LEMMY_UI_HTTPS=true volumes: - ./volumes/lemmy-ui/extra_themes:/app/extra_themes depends_on: - lemmy-blue deploy: resources: limits: memory: 256m ```
___ The only constant different between the two is the IP address I use to expose them to the host. I've tried using ports, but found that it's much easier to follow it in my mind by sticking to the ports and changing the bound IP.
I also have two nginx configs to reflect the different IP for green/blue
deployments, but pasting the whole config here would be a tad too much.
No-downtime upgrade
___
Let's say green is the currently active deployment. In that case - edit the compose-blue.yml file to change the version of lemmy on all 4 components - lemmy, federation, tasks and ui. Then bring down the tasks container from the active deployment, activate the whole of blue deployment and link it to be the compose.override.yml. Once the tasks container is done with whatever tasks it's supposed to do - switch over the nginx config. Et voilà - no downtime upgrade is live!
Now all that's left to do is tear down the green containers.
``` docker compose down lemmy-tasks-green docker compose -f compose-blue.yml up -d ln -f compose-blue.yml compose.override.yml
Wait for tasks to finish
ln -sf /etc/nginx/sites-available/lemmy.cafe-blue.conf /etc/sites-enabled/lemmy.cafe.conf nginx -t && nginx -s reload docker compose -f compose-green.yml down lemmy-green lemmy-federation-green lemmy-tasks-green lemmy-ui-green ```
lemmy.hjson
___
I have also multiplied lemmy.hjson to provide a bit more control.
lemmy.hjson
{ database: { host: "psql" port: 5432 user: "lemmy" password: "<redacted>" pool_size: 3 } hostname: "lemmy.cafe" pictrs: { url: "http://pictrs:8080/" api_key: "<redacted>" } email: { smtp_server: "postfix:25" smtp_from_address: "[email protected]" tls_type: "none" } }
lemmy-federation.hjson
{ database: { host: "psql" port: 5432 user: "lemmy_federation" password: "<redacted>" pool_size: 10 } hostname: "lemmy.cafe" pictrs: { url: "http://pictrs:8080/" api_key: "<redacted>" } email: { smtp_server: "postfix:25" smtp_from_address: "[email protected]" tls_type: "none" } worker_count: 10 retry_count: 2 }
lemmy-tasks.hjson
{ database: { host: "10.20.0.2" port: 5432 user: "lemmy_tasks" password: "<redacted>" pool_size: 3 } hostname: "lemmy.cafe" pictrs: { url: "http://pictrs:8080/" api_key: "<redacted>" } email: { smtp_server: "postfix:25" smtp_from_address: "[email protected]" tls_type: "none" } }
___
I suspect it might be possible to remove pict-rs and/or email config from some of them, but honestly it's not a big deal and I haven't had enough time, yet, to look at it.
Future steps
I'd like to script the actual switch-over - it's really trivial, especially since most of the parts are there already. All I'd really like is apply strict failure mode on the script and see how it behaves; do a few actual upgrades.
Once that happens - I'll post it here.
So long and thanks for all the fish!
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After a new law to quash hundreds of convictions was announced on Wednesday, an inquiry into the scandal resumes in London.
Proper cocked up cover up. Now live!
Lemmy Cafe upgraded to 0.19.2
The process went through smoothly. I have also used the opportunity to split up a singular lemmy container into individual tasks - this has enabled a seemless upgrade process with no downtime, bar a few process quirks I need to work out.
There have been some federation fixes merged into this release, so the situation should definitely be improving overall!
I will make a more detailed write up of the whole setup later on, other admins might find it useful. Or not.